The remains of two children, aged ten and 12, buried 34,000 years ago in Russia, have revealed a clue about the way disabled people were treated during ancient times.

Their bodies were found among the Sungir burials outside of Vladimir, Russia, as reported by Live Science.

They were placed in a slender, long grave, positioned head to head, and their grave was filled with more than 10,000 ivory beads, over 300 fox teeth, and at least 20 armbands.

Additionally, carved artwork, 16 ivory spears, deer antlers, and two human calf bones, which were placed on the boys’ chests, filled the space.

Remains from the Upper Paleolithic period (pictured) have revealed much about the way disabled people were treated at the time, scientists have said. Researchers studied the remains of two boys and determined that even though the children were physically disabled, they were cared for and received extravagant burials.

Researchers compared their graves to that of a man they guessed was around 40 years old when he died.

The adult’s grave was of no comparison to those of the boys, which were packed with riches.

Around 3,000 ivory beads, 12 fox canines, one stone pendant, and 25 ivory arm bands were found in the man’s grave, which means that he was awarded significantly less than the children the researchers discovered.

Erik Trinkaus, author of the new report detailing the findings, told Live Science: ‘From the point of view of the mortuary behavior, the burial of the adult is, in fact, very different from the burial of the children.’

The Sungir burials have been examined since their discovery decades ago and date back to the Mid Upper Paleolithic period.

The remains of two boys, aged ten and 12 when they died, were placed head to head in the grave, which was filled with riches

The riches in their grave were more spectacular than those of a nearby grave that belonged to a 40-year-old man, which the researchers found curious.

The region where the graves are located was enduring a warmer-than-usual period when the remains were buried, researchers have said.

Ice ages occurred both before and after this period.

The higher temperatures during this time at least partially explain how the ancient hunter-gatherers who lived during this time were able to break the ground, which otherwise would have been frozen, to bury their community members.

Ten bodies have been found in the Sungir burials, but the remains of the two young boys are the most spectacular, scientists claimed.

What makes the find curious are the conditions of the children’s remains.

Both show signs of having conditions that would have contributed to the fact that they lived such short lives.

Ivory beads, ivory spears, fox teeth and carved artwork were among the riches the boys were buried with. Researchers analyzed the boys’ dental records and skeletal remains for the new study

The researchers noted that both had experienced multiple periods during which their bodies were under extreme stress.

They based their finding off an examination of the boys’ dental enamel.

Additionally, the younger boy’s thighbones were ‘exceptionally bowed and short’, and the older boy’s teeth were hardly used.

A skeletal analysis suggested that the older boy was bedridden.

‘To us, [this] doesn’t sound like much, but people from this time wore their teeth down quickly,’ Trinkaus explained.

This led researchers to speculate that the older boy was fed soft foods.

The remains from the Upper Paleolithic period were found in Russia. A total of ten bodies were found at the archaeological site